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A deer at a farm. Deer management is the practice and philosophy of wildlife management employed to regulate the population of deer in an area. The purpose of deer management is to regulate the population's size, reduce negative effects of population on the ecosystem, and maintain the integrity of other populations.
Culling of deer can also have benefits in the form of disease prevention [38] and in places that the white-tailed deer is an invasive species such as New Zealand culling of deer has added benefits for native species. [34]
Population control is the practice of artificially maintaining the size of any population.It simply refers to the act of limiting the size of an animal population so that it remains manageable, as opposed to the act of protecting a species from excessive rates of extinction, which is referred to as conservation biology.
A Mississippi wildlife biologist explains that removing bucks with undesirable antlers won't alter herd genetics, but it's still a management tool.
SADDLE RIVER — The borough has brought back its five-year deer culling program a year after it put it on pause. ... Borough data shows the number of deer killed has steadily declined, from 138 ...
The Scottish Gamekeepers Association had opposed changes to culling female deer [Getty Images] Gamekeepers say they have been spared the mental torment of shooting pregnant red deer at times when ...
By the middle of the 20th century, these nonnative deer were regarded as pests because of their impact on the native forests. From the 1950s, deer cullers were employed by the government to keep the numbers in check. The export of venison from wild deer started in the 1960s, turning a pest into an export earner. Industry pioneers saw an ...
The deer live in a mainly suburban environment and have developed (according to a study) home range areas on the island. [1] Hilton Head white-tailed deer are listed as a "species of concern" by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service although culling of the deer is regularly approved in order to reduce the population and prevent accidents ...